In what I hope will be a monthly-esque occurance, several members of the Tall Tale Features crew join me for a round-table discussion about a single topic. This month…Social Media. Seems everyone is tweeting, facebooking, digging, or stumbling around the internet these days, and it’s an especially effective tool if you have something you want people to see. Like, say, oh…a comic strip. Joining me from TTF are Mike Witmer of “Pinkerton,” Lucas Turnbloom of “Imagine This,” and Brian Anderson of “Dog Eat Doug.” All are avid social media types, and we talk about the pros and cons of that world, and point you to sites like Hoot Suite and SU.PR to enhance your online publicity and exposure experience.
GREAt episode! Go team TTF!
This was a really great show. I find a lot of this stuff confusing and you guys clarified it for me for the most part. Thanks!!!
Great episode, I’m trying to get my webcomic out there as much as possible. I have a facebook fan page for the strip where I publish the comic there as well. And on Comicpress there is a plugin called Addthis that lets people share the comic on pretty much all those social networking sites. It’s pretty cool.
First one of these I listened to. Good stuff. I might have to dig through the archives.
Great stuff Tom! Love how you are CONSISTENTLY bringing us some great interviews/discussions on your podcast. You get my vote for the podcasts awards!
I think you could utilise social media through your readers if you don’t like doing it yourself. Simply put up a disclaimer stating that all of that ‘stuff’ takes away time from doing the comic, and if you don’t want to see it suffer, or the quality dip, please tweet for me!
Or, you could – once a week, once a month, every day, however little you value your original art – say that everyone who tweets today’s strip gets a chance to win the original piece. Or another piece of art. Or a book. Whatever you can offer.